Richard Henry Wilde

Richard Henry Wilde (24 September 1789-10 September 1847) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-GA) from 4 March 1815 to 3 March 1817 (succeeding William Barnett and preceding Joel Abbot) and from 7 February to 3 March 1825 (succeeding Thomas Willis Cobb and preceding James Meriwether), from GA-2 from 17 November 1827 to 3 March 1829 (succeeding John Forsyth), and from the at-large district from 4 March 1829 to 3 March 1835 (preceding John W.A. Sanford).

Biography
Richard Henry Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1789, and he emigrated to the United States at the age of eight and moved to Augusta, Georgia in 1802. He became a lawyer in 1809 and served as Attorney General of Georgia from 1811 to 1813 and in the US House of Representatives from 1815 to 1817, in 1825, and from 1827 to 1835. In 1843, he moved to New Orleans to practice law, and he died there four years later.